Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Zscaler unveiled a zero trust platform for agentic AI at its Zenith Live 2026 conference in Las Vegas.
Enterprises are increasingly moving AI workloads to private clouds, a new study shows. Security, compliance, and cost are the major drivers.
The vulnerability enables authenticated attackers to take over the enterprise network management system as root and may be connected to previous UAT-8616 activity.
Talent shortages, tool sprawl, and cloud complexity vex NetOps teams as AI workloads arrive on the network, EMA research finds.
Resilient Network Graph improves throughput while cutting the number of switch-routers needed by 69%.
Here’s what you need to know about the networking giant’s latest product and company news.
The project also upskilled engineers who moved from routine monitoring tasks to more innovative roles that include building AI agents on top of Splunk tools and participating in product testing for new Splunk tooling.
Developers can now run most Linux commands natively, without the need for a Windows Linux Subsystem VM.
Specialty accelerators are built for tight, constricted spaces.
AutoOps+ aims to help systems administrators, cloud engineers, and DevOps professionals validate IT automation skills.
'Quantum networking has many practical and commercial use cases in the classical world today,' said Ramana Kompella, head of Cisco Research and Cisco Fellow, in a session at Cisco Live 2026.
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Cloud Control is a consolidated management plane, but it's not a passive dashboard. Policy and identity are built directly into the control path. It's a sharp departure from the days when a dashboard’s job was mostly to display information and leave
Investors are happy, but the challenge for Broadcom is how to weather the slow migration of customers to other platforms.
Netskope launches AI Command Center, a platform designed to help enterprises discover, assess, govern, and secure AI applications and agents.
As Cisco Live kicks off in Las Vegas, Tom Gillis shares how AI has changed networking, including inside Cisco, where AI coding tools have accelerated software development across its entire product portfolio.
Cisco aims to become the infrastructure layer for the agentic enterprise. It launched a flurry of new products and features at its Cisco Live event taking place this week in Las Vegas.
The credential-less authentication bypass offers attackers a stealthy route into enterprise networks without malware, phishing, or stolen credentials.
New reports reveal regulators are examining licensing, interoperability, and product bundling practices that could affect enterprise customers' ability to switch vendors.
The big three memory makers aren’t producing enough memory to keep up with demand, so CXMT is stepping up.
The partnership yields four new processors for different use cases.
With its new GPU, CPU, and Ethernet controller, Intel is looking for efficiency gains across the AI data center.
Meta keeps reinventing itself in search of a better business model; after personalized ads, the metaverse, and now AI, could renting out its computing infrastructure be next?
SK Hynix claims a 30% reduction in thermal resistance for its new chip design integrating cooling inside HBM memory stacks.
Multi-turn attacks expose gaps in frontier AI model safety, Cisco warns.
The first major blueprint change since 2019 adds AI literacy and hands-on labs to the CCNA, while Cisco’s certification chief explains what the changes mean for existing holders and current candidates.
IBM hopes to build on its expertise to develop wafers for other vendors.
Cisco WAN study shows how AI, and agentic AI in particular, is altering global wide area network (WAN) traffic patterns.
SpaceX IPO filing reveals rival model makers are buying infrastructure from each other, pointing to a new market for frontier-scale compute.
The easily exploited hole could give an unauthenticated threat actor site admin privileges, even across tenant boundaries.
Cisco’s revamped CCNA and CCIE certifications are a skills blueprint for AI-era networking, where automation, observability, and human judgment converge.
In June, Microsoft Secure Boot certificates are set to expire for the first time ever.
Forward Predict runs proposed network changes against a network digital twin and models the impact before any change touches the live environment.
New AI-powered features target proactive troubleshooting, observability, and governance across applications, networks, and endpoints.
New capabilities built into Selector's NetOps platform allow it to correlate network data across branches, colocation facilities, on-premises data centers, and public cloud infrastructure.
Research from two groups shows that enterprises are accelerating their AI security training and workforce development amid concerns over prompt injection, agentic AI, and AI-powered social engineering tasks.
AI is helping bad actors to attack wireless networks – and enterprises to defend them.
Bolt Graphics says its GPU can outperform the top Nvidia GPU on the market at only half the power draw.
Foote Partners finds employers are paying premiums for AI engineering, cybersecurity, governance, and data architecture expertise as enterprises accelerate operational AI adoption.
A $5 billion joint venture gives enterprises a non-Nvidia path to Google's custom AI silicon and reframes AI compute as an asset class.
The authentication bypass bug (CVE-2026-20182) in Catalyst SD-WAN gives remote attackers admin access, with no workaround available.
Power failures are to blame for the most impactful data center outages, while network issues are the most frequent culprits for IT service disruptions, according to Uptime Institute's latest analysis.
Cisco's momentum has implications for enterprises with plans to refresh campus networks and boost their AI readiness.
Cisco saw growing demand for AI infrastructure from hyperscalers in Q3, and on the enterprise front, it reported solid gains across data center switching, enterprise routing, wireless networking, and industrial IoT.
SPAN builds fractional data centers and proposes a distributed network of compute nodes located in residential and commercial spaces
AI data centers and hyperscalers are outbuying enterprises and SMBs amidst the hard drive shortage.
Cisco's Foundry spec can evaluate existing AI models and frontier LLMs such as Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber.
New HPE GreenLake updates unify VM, Kubernetes, and AI management with expanded storage and recovery tools as enterprises look for hybrid cloud alternatives.
Versa Networks adds cloud security posture management to SASE platform as enterprises struggle to correlate risk.
Red Hat makes the MCP server generally available for Ansible and previews an orchestrator that funnels AI actions through deterministic playbooks.
